According to the degree of the disease, there are mild, common, severe and critical types of new coronavirus pneumonia. Usually, some patients with mild or common type of new coronavirus pneumonia may recover on their own after isolation, but for severe and critical type, self-isolation cannot recover on their own and they need to be hospitalized in time to receive isolation treatment. 1. Self-healing: Mild or common type patients usually only have symptoms such as mild cough, low-grade fever, and fatigue, etc. After self-isolation, maintain sufficient rest, balanced nutritional intake, drink plenty of fluids, and avoid bad habits such as exertion and staying up all night, etc. Due to the self-limiting nature of the new type of coronavirus pneumonia, some of the patients can be cured on their own. 2. Unable to recover on their own: In addition to the obvious symptoms of fever and cough, patients with severe and critical cases may also show multiple organ damage and respiratory failure, which cannot be recovered by self-isolation alone. New coronavirus pneumonia focuses on prevention, usually should avoid going to densely populated public places, avoid close contact with anyone with cold or flu symptoms, timely isolation can be contact history or suspected symptoms of people, when their own new coronavirus pneumonia suspected symptoms, timely medical isolation. Tip: The terms “new coronavirus pneumonia” and “new coronavirus pneumonia” mentioned in this article were renamed to “new coronavirus infection” on December 26, 2022, as announced by the National Health Commission.